{"id":364,"date":"2017-07-12T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifafa.us\/?p=364"},"modified":"2017-09-25T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:09:48","slug":"italian-anise-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Italian Anise Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the cookies that I shared at the 2008 IFAFA Conference in Sacramento. -Linda Coda Brigante<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-815 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ifafa.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Italian-Anise-Cookies-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Italian-Anise-Cookies-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Italian-Anise-Cookies.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Dough:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>3\/4 cup sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 stick (1\/2 cup) unsalted butter, melted<\/li>\n<li>2 large eggs<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup milk<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp anise extract<\/li>\n<li>2 3\/4 cups all-purpose flour<\/li>\n<li>2 1\/2 tsp baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Decoration: multicolored nonpareils<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Coat baking sheet(s) with non-stick spray.<\/li>\n<li>Dough: beat first 5 ingredients in a large bowl with mixer until blended. On low<br \/>\nspeed, beat in next 3 ingredients, until blended.<\/li>\n<li>Drop rounded measuring teaspoons of dough 2 in. apart onto the prepared baking\u00a0sheet(s). (I used a small ice cream scoop to make a ball.)<\/li>\n<li>Bake 8 to 10 minutes until bottoms are light golden. (Be sure to pre-heat oven. I baked the cookies about 15 minutes, gently lifting the cookie to check the bottoms. Be sure not to over bake.) Remove cookies to a wire rack to cool.<\/li>\n<li>Dip tops of cookies in Glaze and while wet, sprinkle with nonpareils. (Take a cookie, dip or spread glaze and then sprinkle. Do not glaze the batch and then sprinkle, the glaze will have already hardened.) Let set. Store airtight at room temperature up to 2 weeks or freeze up to 1 month.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Glaze<\/h2>\n<p>Whisk 1 cup confectioners\u2019 sugar, 4 to 5 tsp milk and 1 tsp anise extract in a small bowl until smooth.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe stated it made 80 cookies. Using the small ice cream scoop, it made 40 cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the cookies that I shared at the 2008 IFAFA Conference in Sacramento. -Linda Coda Brigante Dough: 3\/4 cup sugar 1 stick (1\/2 cup) unsalted butter, melted 2 large eggs 1\/4 cup milk 1 tsp anise extract 2 3\/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 1\/2 tsp baking powder 1\/4 tsp salt Decoration: multicolored nonpareils<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifafa.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}